Lunchtime Tours

Join a virtual guided tour of the South Side Home Movie Project’s digital archive and discover new ways of activating and preserving community knowledge through home movies. What year was that parade? What high school band was leading it? Do you recognize that beach? Help SSHMP fill in missing dates, locations, and names, and collect background stories that fill in context. Jog your memories and join our efforts to provide both cultural and geographical reference points in the films, and to collect anecdotes as well as facts. **This presentation is full.**

Calling Hyde Parkers and South Siders, past and present: Join a virtual guided tour of the South Side Home Movie Project’s digital archive, and discover new ways of activating and preserving community knowledge through home movies. What year was that parade? What high school band was leading it? Do you recognize that beach? Help SSHMP fill in missing dates, locations, and names, and collect background stories that fill in context. Jog your memories and join our efforts to provide both cultural and geographical reference points in the films, and to collect anecdotes as well as facts.

Why do I see certain objects at the Oriental Institute? How did the Oriental Institute come to have these objects? And what do they mean? As the Oriental Institute looks ahead to celebrating its first hundred-year anniversary, this tour will look back at how the pieces in the Oriental Institute Museum came to Chicago and came to this museum.**This presentation is full.**

Why do I see certain objects at the Oriental Institute? How did the Oriental Institute come to have these objects? And what do they mean? As the Oriental Institute looks ahead to celebrating its first hundred-year anniversary, this tour will look back at how the pieces in the Oriental Institute Museum came to Chicago and came to this museum.**This presentation is full.**

Guided tour of "Jason Dodge with Ishion Hutchinson: The Broad Church of Night": Berlin-based artist Jason Dodge returns to Chicago with a site-specific installation conceived specifically for the intimate grandeur of the Neubauer Collegium’s wood-paneled exhibition space. Dodge’s immersive sculptural environment will be activated over the course of the fall courtesy of poet Ishion Hutchinson. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete.**This presentation is full.**